Hey with 182,000 HARD miles on the clock "for a while" is all I expect...

Is that you, or the car?

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I got a LOT more miles than that and there have been some hard ones. My wife knows when I'm going up the stairs by all the creaking and popping and it's not the stairs........

Sorry there is absolutely NO GRAPHITE in RESTORE. enginerestoreman
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You realize this thread is 2 years old?

And it still will not convince people that the stuff is "snake oil" and does nothing.

Vince

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i've never used this stuff because until recently i've always driven turbo cars and it is the ban of their exsistence. Why? Because it is full of small metal particles that junk up the rotors in the turbo and lead to turbo death. However, these small metal particles should make an NA motor run better as they get mashed into the cylinder walls over time and help smooth things out and fill in pits thus leading to increased compression. makes sense to me, and i've heard of a lot of people that have had great experience.

And no matter how many people share personal experiences with you it still won't convince you that it does something.

I just bought a Dodge Omni to beat around in, and until I find another engine and freshen it up, I needed to do something about the MASSIVE blowby it had. The computer controlled carb was removed along with the stock airbox, which is when I discovered the blowby coming from a tube plumbed from the valve cover to the airbox (aside from PCV...strange little car...) It would force smoky air out of that tube, from the oil fill cap when I opened it, and from around the dipstick. At idle it would do all this. When the car was revved it would fill the engine bay with blowby smoke on one trip to 3500 or so. When driving it would emit enough smoke into the engine bay that it would drift through the vents and into the cabin. WOT was really bad, enough that the car left a trail of smoke behind it. I had considered re-ringing the engine but I think it has been severely overheated... anyway I have decided that another engine is the way to go, so in the mean time I decided to try some of this engine restore. Anyway, a friend of mine had a mirage that he would let the engine restore sit in the bores then spin it over to eject the restore, replace plugs and drive.

So I tried it, I put a significant amount of Engine restore in each cylinder through the plug hole and waited about 2 hours. I cranked the engine over a few times and reinserted spark plugs. I started the car and drove it about 40 miles and by the time I got home I noticed slightly better street manners and no smoke entering the cabin. under WOT it would still smoke but not terribly. When I opened the hood I noticed at idle, there was no blowby smoke. a quick rev to about 4000 only produced minor smoke whereas before it would fill the engine bay.

So, you say this stuff is snake oil and does nothing, so explain why my engine produced massive smoke before, and now it only produces minor smoke. The only variable here is engine restore....

A band aid for the real problem, yes. A temporary solution at best, but take it for what its worth, it'll hold you over until you get another car or get the new engine ready.

Hi Joe, just to correct your post. RESTORE works great with turbo engines. we have smoked the wheels of our super-chipped Volvo 740 turbo at the Eastcoast Extreme Bentwater drag racing for several years with RESTORE in the engine and it just gets faster and faster. It is my daily drive year round too. thanks
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Hi,i dont want to leave this thread,i dont care if its 10 years old.....i like to hear all the gripes and groans,where else can a grown man (and ladys) CRY.........

I'm still using it but had to retire the LeSabre at 203,000. The engine was still going strong but everything else was falling apart. Too bad they don't make a "spray on" version for the rest of the car.

I have used it several times and have only had good results. I used to work as a shuttle driver and we used Ford E350 vans, when the mileage started getting around 200k I would start to put Restorer in them. Every engine I put it in "seemed" to have more power. My partner and I would both notice a 1-2 mpg increase in gas mileage when it was used. This was noted over and over, not a one time thing.

I never tried compression testing or tearing the engine down after use but I do have a story that really convinced me that it can do some good. I got an old gas edger form my grandparents that had been sitting in their garadge for the last 30 years. As soon as the oil heated up it would start to smoke and would foul the plug within a few miniutes. My first idea was to put 60wt oil in it. But the same thing happened, in a few miniutes it would foul the plug again. So I had some restorer in the garadge and put in 4-5 oz. After that it still smoked but it would keep running long enough to get the yard done.

I also don't think its just thickening up the oil. It's not really that thick to begin with and your only putting a few ounces in a gallon or more of oil. No its not going to rebuild your engine but I think it can buy you some time.

Jordon

Exactly.